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Erich Osterberg

Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences

My overarching research objective is to understand how and why Earth’s environment changed in the past, and is changing today, so we can more accurately predict how it will change in the future. My specialty is creating records of past climate change and air pollution by analyzing chemical markers preserved in glacier ice cores. I am particularly interested in how glaciers responded to warm periods in the past, as this provides an example of how glaciers and sea level may respond to future global warming.